Old school was back - Ace Cafe - where has everyone gone?

[jagsy]

Hi
It's been some time, but HSV UK still runs strong for me and I miss the old R8 - she was a fun fun car!! But that said the Manta here in warmer climates has an amazing fun appeal

Early 2000's was a good time for HSV in the UK and thanks to Stuart it got better and better.

What happened to the car park full on Oz day, what happened to cars having to be turned away at 10am?

It was great to see Roger and Stuart and if your are down under give me a shout.

Hi to Paul, Duncan, Will an Trevor who I hoped to have seen. Next time

[V8HSV]

Richard

Sorry to have missed you, my R8 sits in the drive of late for various reasons but mainly finance (recruitment not being the best industry to work in of late), would have tried to get a lift up if I had known a true old school HSV fan like yourself would be there.

I think the new blood in the club has taken over as have the VXR badged cars from Oz & oldies like myself seem to be out of step with the new motors, well they are 4 door Monaro’s aren’t they LOL.
Hope you & your family are well & I know you will be enjoying the antipodean climate over blighty.

Best wishes

Will

[MyM8V8]

V8HSV said:

Richard

Sorry to have missed you, my R8 sits in the drive of late for various reasons but mainly finance (recruitment not being the best industry to work in of late), would have tried to get a lift up if I had known a true old school HSV fan like yourself would be there.

I think the new blood in the club has taken over as have the VXR badged cars from Oz & oldies like myself seem to be out of step with the new motors, well they are 4 door Monaro’s aren’t they LOL.
Hope you & your family are well & I know you will be enjoying the antipodean climate over blighty.

Best wishes

Will

Will, I still have the VZ Maloo and now a battered old GTS (VX Clubby for the purists), but I still get on with the others on here (well most of the time anyway!). I think I know where you are coming from, but as far as I am concerned, they are all V8 powered Holdens at the end of the day, we just need to move on.

Cheers Gareth.

PS. I know what the OP was saying, 1st time I ever went it was a squeeze to get in. This time, I got there at about 2.15 ish and the place was deserted, I literally had a bacon butty and mug of tea with Chris, Andy and Jez and buggered off 1/2 hour later!!!

Edited by MyM8V8 on Monday 1st February 14:29

[ringram]

Wasnt it over 2 days this time instead of the one normally?

I would have been there except for a planned holiday. Less holdens and more badged as vauxhalls these days.
I also suspect as Will said that the recession put a bash on things. Its easy for those from Oz where there is now parity with the pound to rock on up
But those holding sheets of toilet paper printed by the BOE find them worthless for doing anything other than toiletary activities.

[MyM8V8]

ringram said:

But those holding sheets of toilet paper printed by the BOE find them worthless for doing anything other than toiletary activities.

LOL. Sad but true, having just been down under, £4 for a stubby, anywhere!!!

[Magic919]

ringram said:

Wasn't it over 2 days this time instead of the one normally?

There was a VXR meet there on the Saturday, then Aus day on the Sunday.

[delmeekc]

V8HSV I need a job, what do you do?

[Trailermasher]

I had every intention of bringing the VE GTS down, but other factors prevented my going.

Sorry to have missed it, but should be good for next year. It'll probably still be the only HSV VE GTS in Europe.

[Wolfracer]

delmeekc said:

V8HSV I need a job, what do you do?

Think its generally clients not candidates the industry needs....

(I'd been in recruitment myself for 14 years up untill the big R hit the manufacturing industry...)

[crisisjez]

Trailermasher said:

I had every intention of bringing the VE GTS down, but other factors prevented my going.

Sorry to have missed it, but should be good for next year. It'll probably still be the only HSV VE GTS in Europe. :whistle:

You taken the blower off?

[V8HSV]

Wolfracer said:

delmeekc said:

V8HSV I need a job, what do you do?

Think its generally clients not candidates the industry needs....

(I'd been in recruitment myself for 14 years up untill the big R hit the manufacturing industry...)

Technical / permanent recruitment within power generation, waste to energy, combined heat & power etc., field service / commissioning, shift operations nationally plus I specialise in condition monitoring & reliability engineers onshore & offshore.
Like Wolfracer said, we are client driven at the moment but we have a lot of vacancies unfilled with skill shortages so always a mixture of candidates & clients required.
The good news is that we have had a very good start to the year, billing £100k on permanent introductions last month with good 1st quarter predictions & in 20 years in this ‘game’ we do appear to have ‘turned the corner’.

[ringram]

New VXR8 then Will?

[V8HSV]

ringram said:

New VXR8 then Will?

Ha, might have been upbeat about economy & recruitment but I was made redundant in Aug-09, then taken back self-employed, then on permanent terms all with original employer, all fine & dandy but I have not got over missing a salary cheque for 3 months plus the expense of Crimbo.

Second hand VXR8 maybe but not till they are sub £10k in about......... years.

Got a friend working on a customer project to fit out a smart with a V8 of 2 litre capacity amalgamating two motorbike engines, if he could do the same to mine & would go that route over low powered / large capacity V8’s. Getting bored with 170 bhp / litre in my smart, the beast in the drive only has 100 bhp / litre.